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Fort Bragg is back

| February 11, 2025 | 60 Comments
Fort Bragg is back

SecDef Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort Liberty (Formerly Fort Bragg) back to Fort Bragg late last night. It is not being re-renamed for Braxton Bragg (the original namesake and notoriously terrible CSA general) but instead for Private First Class Roland Bragg of Maine. PFC Bragg earned the Silver Star for bravery in action against […]

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Tuesday riches

| February 11, 2025 | 18 Comments
Tuesday riches

SanFranNan hits the news again… it hasn’t been a week since she was again named as one of the premier insider traders in Congress. Her defense at the time was that her HUSBAND is the trader. She doesn’t buy anything, and I guess the implication is that a) they don’t ever talk (with her as […]

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Saturday New Tech

| February 8, 2025 | 19 Comments
Saturday New Tech

We mentioned the dual-band radar on the Gerald Ford yesterday – today we turn our attention to non-floaty toys. First up – the Marines are looking for a few good choppers hybrid planes Osprey replacements. A newly released U.S. Marine Aviation Plan shows the service is now looking at a successor to its MV-22 Osprey […]

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U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive

| February 6, 2025 | 37 Comments
U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive

The U.S. Army announced that it shattered previous recruiting records last year. In December 2024, the Army averaged nearly 350 enlistments a day. On X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth highlighted the desire for Americans, from the targeted recruiting demographic, to serve under bold & strong leadership. The Army also cut its force by 24,000, […]

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Hellhound in Army Competition

| February 1, 2025 | 13 Comments
Hellhound in Army Competition

I am in awe of what science can do today – and the following helps demonstrate why. Cummings Aerospace is submitting a new drone for Army approval in its ‘loitering munition’ competition. Sounds kinda boring, huh? The company took its S3 version of its man-portable loitering munition out to the Pendleton Unmanned Aircraft Systems test […]

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Tanker Love Friday

| January 24, 2025 | 8 Comments
Tanker Love Friday

  The Army has approved full-rate production of the variable-fused 120mm Advanced Multi-Purpose round. Till now, production and distribution has been limited. It equips M1 Abrams crews with the ability to effectively neutralize Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) teams and breach formidable Double Reinforced Concrete Walls (DRCW) while consolidating the capabilities of four legacy rounds into […]

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Deep Army cuts to help support realigning towards Indo-Pacific region

| January 23, 2025 | 26 Comments
Deep Army cuts to help support realigning towards Indo-Pacific region

Austin Dahmer and Alexander Velez-Green are among Donald Trump’s defense advisors. Both are hawkish when it comes to dealing with China. Dahmer previously generated a report on how to help accomplish the Indo-Pacific strategy. He proposed $70 billion less for the Army each year. Together with other cuts, the Navy and Air Force would each […]

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Hump Day shorts

| January 22, 2025 | 27 Comments
Hump Day  shorts

Sometimes a column needs 1000 words per topic, and sometimes a lot of little things crop up. Hopefully the major news of the week is the new administration, but here are a couple of other quick items. In good news for recruiting, in the first quarter of the fiscal year the Army signed up 30,000 […]

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